The Big Art Directory

Artists & studios

Discover the practices behind large-scale sculpture and installation. Profiles are independently researched; inclusion does not imply representation.

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Representative artist / studio image for Wangechi Mutu
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Wangechi Mutu ↗

Wangechi Mutu reworks figurative and hybrid forms in bronze sculptures that address historical representation and the body.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, installation, public art
Materials in documented works
bronze
Project references
The NewOnes, will free Us · Crocodylus · The Seated I and The Seated III
Documented contexts
Metropolitan Museum facade; Prospect.5 and Besthoff Sculpture Garden
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Warren Trezevant ↗

Trezevant co-created Sonic Runway with Rob Jensen. His work spans animation and physical installations, including contributions to large zoetropes and interactive sculpture.

Project details & references
Practice
interactive installation, animation
Materials in documented works
LEDs
Project references
Sonic Runway in Chengdu · Charon, Eternal Return and R_Evolution · Toy Story Zoetrope
Documented contexts
Artists’ retrospective account of the 2017 Chengdu installation.; Retrospective credits for animation and breathing-motion design on other artists’ sculptures.
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Weld Queen ↗

Weld Queen is a sculptor and performer whose practice combines professional welding, large metal forms and audience participation. Her artist biography describes interactive sculpture as work completed through the viewer’s experience, alongside workshops and sound-based public art. Blastoff, shown at Burning Man in 2023 after an appearance at The People Festival in Monterrey, is a tower shaped like an aircraft: participants could climb to its wings while a tent-like tail provided shade below. High Six is a hand-shaped sound sculpture with a steel musical instrument in its palm; the artist credits its conception to Weld Queen and Maria Montvid Komova and its production to Weld Queen. Burning Man’s 2025 archive separately documents MOTHER, a reflective organic form presented with a surrounding relaxation area.

Project details & references
Practice
welded metal sculpture, sound art, performance, large-scale installation
Project references
Blastoff · High Six · MOTHER
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WHITEvoid ↗

Berlin, Germany

WHITEvoid is a Berlin art and design studio founded by Christopher Bauder. It develops large installations and interactive environments, with in-house engineering, prototyping and manufacture of kinetic lighting systems.

Project details & references
Practice
light art, kinetic installation, interactive design
Materials in documented works
mirrors
Project references
FLUIDIC – Sculpture in Motion · CIRCULAR · SKALAR – Reflections on Light and Sound
Documented contexts
Hyundai exhibition, Milan Design Week, 2013.; Christopher Bauder work documented at three European presentations, 2015–2017.
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Will Ryman ↗

New York, New York, United States

Will Ryman creates public sculpture that changes the scale and material character of familiar forms. His installations include oversized flowers and a monumental bird assembled from steel nails.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, public installation
Materials in documented works
bronze, granite (base), stainless steel, paint
Project references
Bird · 58th Street · Sisyphus
Documented contexts
Artist labels work 2013; Flatiron presentation March–April 2013; earlier gallery history is separate.; Work dated 2011; museum lawn exhibition August 2011–January 2012.
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Yasuhiro Chida ↗

Aragon, Spain

Artist creating spatial installations with light and physical materials, with work exhibited internationally and a practice concerned with making space perceptible.

Project details & references
Practice
light art, spatial installation
Materials in documented works
Steel, Silk thread, Projector, Nylon thread
Project references
Brocken 6 A · Analemma at Into The Great Wide Open · 0.04
Documented contexts
2017 Amsterdam Light Festival version within the broader Brocken series.; Forest installation at the 2019 festival on Vlieland, Netherlands.
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Yayoi Kusama ↗

Yayoi Kusama (1929–2026) developed a practice spanning painting, sculpture, mirrored environments and outdoor public art, using repeated dots, nets and organic forms. Her official biography records her death in August 2026; this profile documents her artistic legacy. In the United States, A Message of Love, Directly from My Heart unto the Universe is a glass mosaic for Grand Central Madison, fabricated by Miotto Mosaics Art Studios. Beverly Hills commissioned Hymn of Life: Tulips for Beverly Gardens Park; the city describes a stainless-steel refabrication, but its page does not confirm a return date. San Francisco’s civic collection records High Heels for Going to Heaven at SFO. These examples connect immersive imagery with transit and civic settings; the documented works are reference projects, with present display and access checked separately.

Project details & references
Practice
public sculpture, installation, mosaic, painting
Project references
A Message of Love, Directly from My Heart unto the Universe · Hymn of Life: Tulips · High Heels for Going to Heaven
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Yinka Shonibare ↗

Yinka Shonibare uses patterned sculptural forms to examine cultural exchange and to create public monuments and gathering places.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, public art
Materials in documented works
steel armature, hand-painted fiberglass resin cast, gold leaf
Project references
Wind Sculpture (SG) I · Hibiscus Rising · Wind Sculpture VII
Documented contexts
New York public sculpture; Leeds memorial
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Zachary Coffin ↗

Coffin makes large kinetic sculptures that let visitors move substantial masses of stone. His documented works include Colossus and Temple of Gravity.

Project details & references
Practice
kinetic sculpture, interactive sculpture, stone sculpture
Materials in documented works
rock, metal, granite
Project references
Colossus · Temple of Gravity · The Universe Revolves Around You
Documented contexts
Burning Man · 2005 · subsequent Maker Faire installation; Burning Man · 2003 · granite and suspended mass
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